Software tester

MUST BE ABLE TO COMMUTE TO BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS

Software Test Analyst

Major Responsibilities:

 Review Use Cases, Business Scenarios, Technical and Design Specifications    to create Test Cases

 Creation of detailed Test Scripts and procedures to manually validate modified functionality and system 

integration

 Gather, create, and manage test data needed for test execution

 Defect reporting, defect triage and follow through to resolution

 Analyze requirements and have the ability to provide test approach, identify test impact, and test 

estimates 

 Test  execution activities including Smoke Test, End to End Test,    and Regression testing

 Reporting daily test activity progress for roll up into test team progress summary reports

 Assure test asset traceability to requirements and other applicable design artifacts

 Maintain and archive test assets within the Jazz tool and JIRA

 Interact with the client and other stakeholders on the project

 Ability to work in Agile environment

Experience Required:

 Strong analytical, communication and documentation skills

 Experience in iterative software development life cycle methodologies 

 Exposure to API validation is preferred

 Exposure to JIRA tool is required

 Experience with Performance scripting and testing

 Experience with web-based    application and browser testing

 Extensive SQL Query Skills for database validations using tools such as TOAD

 Experience with interface validation using XML Messages

 Ability to articulate and document defects and/or issues in a clear and detailed manner

 Experience with creating daily validation progress reports

 Extensive experience with JAVA front end and ORACLE back-end validation

Skills Needed:

 Ability to easily adopt to new tools and processes  

 Exposure to automation test tools is preferred

 Experience with performance testing and results documentation

 Excellent interpersonal skills necessary to interact effectively with fellow testers, developers, and 

management

 Demonstrated flexibility to meet timelines generally associated with multiple active sprints 

 Ability to multitask during an iterative system development lifecycle

 Organizational skills needed to maintain, archive, and retrieve test assets efficiently

 Highly analytical, needs to independently analyze test results and be confident with recommendations

 Experience with Child Support Enforcement is preferred